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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Mar 27, 2002
"The vocal chords are then strongly approximated," - are you sure you don't mean "attenuated"? 
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James the Techie Posted Mar 27, 2002
No, I imagine 2legs *does* mean "approximated", which means "brought close together" (ie. into proximity). Although it sounds like it should mean "estimated", my dictionary gives it no such meaning.
If you "attenuated" your vocal cords, you would be making them thin or weak, which wouldn't be a lot of use for keeping food out of the trachea (windpipe.) Again, it sounds like "attenuated" should mean "placed under tension", but it doesn't.
Set a pedant to catch a pedant, it seems!
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 27, 2002
"Attenuated" can also mean "shortened", which would fit into this context... The use of "Approximated" in the context of "to bring together" is largely depreciated... 
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Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 Posted Mar 27, 2002
Or did you mean 'deprecated'?
Anyway, the voicebox thingies are vocal cords, not vocal chords. Vocal chords require more than one singer
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 27, 2002
I did mean "depreciated", in the common IT parlance... 
True about chord vs. cord; shows I wasn't really paying attention... 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Mar 21, 2005
*makes note to subscribe to his own guide entrys * 
The term I used was the same I've seen in several biology text books
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 21, 2005
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jun 17, 2005
So in terms of the 'chord' versus 'cord,' and my most likely haveing spelt it rong; how is it possible to get it changes, as I cna't edit the entry since its in the EG? or did it get changed... wich eye cold spel...
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- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 27, 2002)
- 2: James the Techie (Mar 27, 2002)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 27, 2002)
- 4: Bels - an incurable optimist. A1050986 (Mar 27, 2002)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 27, 2002)
- 6: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Mar 21, 2005)
- 7: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 21, 2005)
- 8: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jun 17, 2005)
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